Student discusses cancer research as part of her Ohio State Pelotonia Fellowship

January 4, 2019

Bailey Lucas, an undergraduate Pelotonia fellow majoring in zoology at Ohio State Marion, discusses the Pelotonia Fellowship Program, and cancer research she participates in, which is focused on, DNA damage repair through homologous recombination. Homologous recombination is a type of genetic recombination in which nucleotide sequences are exchanged between two similar or identical molecules of DNA. It is most widely used by cells to accurately repair harmful breaks that occur on both strands of DNA, known as double-strand breaks (DSB).

Undergraduate Student Pelotonia Fellowship Program

The Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellowship Program provides one-year research fellowships to the best and brightest Ohio State University undergraduate students who want to help cure cancer. Cancer is a complex disease, and curing it will take a multidisciplinary effort. So no matter what their field of study, from traditional scientific fields to fields like engineering, history and business, all Ohio State undergraduate students may apply.